The Daily Plan-it / Dean of Students Blog, Columbia J-school

Nina Bernstein
Reporter, New York Times

Children Lost and Found: Thirty-Five Years After Wilder
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
12:30 - 1:30 (Room C03) (more…)

The Earth Institute at Columbia University has assembled its 2007-2008 Student Advisory Council with two students from each academic department who will assist in developing student and academic activities for the campus around the issues of earth systems science and sustainable development.

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The Earth Institute at Columbia University would like to invite you to join them on October 23rd from 4 to 7pm in the Low Library Rotunda for a Columbia University Environmental and Sustainable Development Programs Open House, where you will be able to find out about the many resources available to Columbia students interested in earth systems, environmental policy and sustainable development. From majors in environmental studies to degree programs in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Policy, Climate and Society, Columbia has a great deal to offer.
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You are cordially invited to a lecture and book signing with author and NBC chief foreign correspondent Andrea Mitchell.

Ms. Mitchell is the author of Talking Back…to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels, published by Penguin. Her reports are featured on NBC Nightly News, Today, and Meet the Press.

She is the former chief White House correspondent for NBC and has reported on presidential politics since 1972.

Monday, April 30, 2007

8 p.m.

The Joyce B. Cowin Center at Teachers College

Copies of her book will be available for purchase and signing that evening.

RSVP by Friday, April 13 at 212.678.3955

or by email at tcinvite@tc.edu

“POLITICS WITHOUT SOVEREIGNTY?”

DATE: Saturday, February 24

TIME: 12:30-2

LOCATION: Lindsey Rogers Room, 7th Floor International Affairs Building

What is the ‘Unholy Alliance Against Sovereignty’?

Can Sovereignty Be Defended?

Has the sovereign state been superceded by the UN,

EU, Global civil society, or US Empire? Should it?

can we have politics without sovereignty?

Come find out, as the editors of

‘Politics Without Sovereignty: A Critique of Contemporary International Relations’ (Routledge)

Alex Gourevitch (Columbia),

Chris Bickerton (Oxford),

Philip Cunliffe (King’s College London)

discuss their new book with Professor Jack Snyder.

Saturday, February 24th, 12:30pm at Lindsey Rogers Room, 7th Floor International Affairs Building

Discounted copies will be available at the launch.

For more information on the book go to www.said-workshop.org/book.php

The Religion Graduate Students Association of Columbia University is accepting registration now through March 23, 2007 for:

“Pop Goes Religion: Exploring the Relationship between Religion and Popular/Consumer Culture”

Thursday March 29, 2007
Columbia University, New York
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/religion-gsa/

Featured Guests:

Keynote Speaker: Ronald Inden, Professor Emeritus of History and of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Closing Discussant:

Laurel Kendall, Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History and Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University.

Description:

This conference will investigate the impact of popular and consumer culture on religious practice, worship, and experience, including how they are shaping and reforming the understanding and self-understanding of different religious traditions and religious practitioners. Also under consideration are the ways popular and consumer cultural practices have influenced scholarship on and the actual teaching methods of religion, particularly in the field of religious studies. Finally, we will likewise explore the impact of religion and religious themes and ideas on popular and consumer culture.

Columbia University Sponsors:

Department of Religion, Department of Anthropology, Graduate Student Advisory Council (GSAC)

For schedules, panel information, abstracts, and bios, please go to: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/religion-gsa/

Event Details:
Deconstructing Terrorism Using Socioeconomic & Geopolitical Lens

Date: 28th Nov 2006; Time: 6pm to 9pm

Location: Alfred Lerner Hall, Party Room

Details: RSVP Required; Dinner provided for Round table discussion

Speakers: Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka; Council of Foreign Relations (3 Speakers), Center on Terrorism, John Jay College (2 Speakers), Columbia Uni(4 Speakers), Drew University.

Event Format: Brief Intro of Speakers & Round table discussion w/dinner.
RSVP & More info at www.deconstructterrorism.com

From: Tony Dokoupil, a doctoral student of communications in the J-school, and a freelance journalist who has written for New York Press, Newsweek, and Publisher’s Weekly.

CJAS Monthly — the online sister publication of the Columbia
Journal of American Studies — seeks a NEW EDITOR and EDITORIAL
TEAM. It’s a unique journal — bit of a fixer upper — but
definitely something with great potential. We’re open to creative
redesigns.

HISTORY and MISSION

CJAS exists in the borderland between academia and journalism,
publishing high-quality cultural commentary with a broad audience
in mind. It’s funded by Columbia’s Herbert H. Lehman Center for
American History, and was founded last year as the online
compliment to the decade old print edition of the Columbia Journal
of American Studies — which is peer-reviewed, printed annually, and
distributed through Labyrinth Books and university libraries across
the country.

CONTRIBUTORS

In less than a year, CJAS Monthly has attracted contributions from
journalists, professors, and freelance writers whose work also
appears frequently in The Believer, Commentary, The New York Times,
The New York Observer, Publisher’s Weekly, and TIMEOUT New York.

REACH

— One of three national journals recognized by the American Studies
Association:
http://www.americanquarterly.org/index.php/resources/country/C34/

— Searchable through research library systems across the country,
including the systems at Columbia and Michigan State:
http://er.lib.msu.edu/item.cfm?item=000401

IF INTERESTED, PLEASE SEND A COVER EMAIL WITH A BIT ABOUT YOUR
INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE TO TONY DOKOUPIL at td2158@columbia.edu.

www.CJASmonthly.com AND www.columbia.edu/cu/cjas/

Q: How do I take an outside elective?

A: M.S. students are encouraged to make use of the greater Columbia University course offerings to further their knowledge base in areas of particular interest and relevance to their journalistic goals. Classes (except for languages) must be graduate level and must be approved by the Dean of Students office.

M.A. students are required to take an outside elective each semester. Classes must be graduate level and must be approved by your discipline professor.

For further information, please go to http://snurl.com/outside_classes

Please note that M.S. students must complete our course preference balloting and registration process with the intention of taking all your classes at the Journalism School (since cross-registrations aren’t always possible, you should carefully complete your ballot). Registration for outside courses is a function of add/drop.

ASIA PACIFIC AFFAIRS COUNCIL
WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE

Cordially invite you to network with industry professionals at the
Media Career Event

Panelists:
Fred Katayama, J’83, Award winning CNN correspondent –
Currently anchor at Reuters Television

Susan Berfield
Associate Editor, Businessweek

Oisika Chakrabarti
Officer, U.N. Department of Public Information

Paul Cohen
Vice President, Corporate
Ketchum Public Relations, NYC

Alejandro Reyes
Former Asiaweek journalist –
Currently freelance writer and consultant

Questions: Contact Amy Ahn at - asa6@columbia.edu

JUST SHOW UP!

Co-sponsored by the International Media & Communications Concentration

Joint Event with Columbia School of Journalism

Evening Speaker: Joseph Nocera, Business Columnist New York Times (and adjunct prof at the J-School)

when: Thursday, November 16, 6:30 – 8PM
where: Warren Hall
contact: Kara Keenan at kk2258@columbia.edu

Students are welcome to participate in an evening speaker event on Thursday, November 16 in Warren Hall from 6:30 – 8PM. Mr. Nocero will be prepared to answer students’ questions.

Joseph Nocera is a business columnist for The New York Times, and a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, specializing in business stories. Prior to joining the Times this past April, Nocera spent 10 years at Fortune Magazine, where he held a variety of positions, including contributing writer, editor-at-large and executive editor. His last position at Fortune was editorial director.

Joseph Nocera. Some of his most acclaimed feature stories in Fortune include “Fatal Litigation,” his account of the battle between plaintiff’s lawyers and Dow Corning over the silicon breast implants; “The Buzz Factory,” an inside look at the business of Conde Nast; and “Heard on the Street”, the story that first exposed the rift in the family that owns the majority stake in Dow Jones. Nocera’s coverage of the Microsoft antitrust trial was also widely praised. Nocera has won two Gerald Loeb awards and three John Hancock awards for excellence in business journalism. His 1994 book, “A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class,” won the New York Public Library’s 1995 Helen Bernstein Award as the best non-fiction book of the year. He anchored the 1997 Frontline documentary, “Betting on the Market,” which aired on PBS, and, in 2003, edited “The Smartest Guys in the Room,” the best-selling book about Enron written by two Fortune senior writers.

Nocera was the Profit Motive columnist at GQ until May 1995 and he wrote the same column for Esquire from 1988 to 1990. In the 1980’s, he served as a contributing editor at Newsweek; as executive editor of New England Monthly; and as senior editor at Texas Monthly. From 1978 to 1980 he was an editor at The Washington Monthly. In addition to his work at the Times, Nocera serves as a regular business commentator for NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon.

Nocera earned a B.S. in journalism from Boston University in 1974. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with his wife and their three children.